What's weird is I was reading it backwards (because it's Twitter) so I first saw her follow-up comments saying "That was just an *example* of sexism! People are missing the point!" So you know, I was expecting that there was a wider point and people were focusing on the wrong thing. But... nope, it really was just a four-tweet attack of that phrase specifically.
And you're right, she's totally off-base about who uses it and why. I'm sympathetic if it rubs her the wrong way, but if anything the cutesiness is about us (fangirls) playing with our femaleness and sexuality, not objectifying her. I have never heard it used by a man, but I have heard it *directed* at men and inanimate non-gendered things, not just female creators. I could see criticizing it from the angle of "We're women! We emphasize how much we love things by saying we want to have babies with them!" and maybe that's problematic. But it is not "critiquing a person's work based on their looks". And then playing it off as YOU MISSED MY POINT, SEXISM EXISTS when people disagree? Um, no.
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Date: 2010-10-28 02:09 pm (UTC)What's weird is I was reading it backwards (because it's Twitter) so I first saw her follow-up comments saying "That was just an *example* of sexism! People are missing the point!" So you know, I was expecting that there was a wider point and people were focusing on the wrong thing. But... nope, it really was just a four-tweet attack of that phrase specifically.
And you're right, she's totally off-base about who uses it and why. I'm sympathetic if it rubs her the wrong way, but if anything the cutesiness is about us (fangirls) playing with our femaleness and sexuality, not objectifying her. I have never heard it used by a man, but I have heard it *directed* at men and inanimate non-gendered things, not just female creators. I could see criticizing it from the angle of "We're women! We emphasize how much we love things by saying we want to have babies with them!" and maybe that's problematic. But it is not "critiquing a person's work based on their looks". And then playing it off as YOU MISSED MY POINT, SEXISM EXISTS when people disagree? Um, no.